News Coverage

Hamilton

The cost of whistleblowingSome people don’t like to hear the kinds of things Hilson is saying. Many of his allegations sting with their accuracy and boldness. View Magazine January 15/2004

Dump chemicals diverted from creekChemicals seeping toward Red Hill Creek from the old Rennie Street landfill are now being intercepted and pumped into storage tanks. Eric McGuinness January 23/2003

City cutting trees on Red Hill banksThe Rennie St. landfill makes it back into the news as controversial redevelopment begins. “The tops [of some trees] have to go to stop migratory birds from nesting when construction starts in the spring,” says one city official. Hamilton Spectator January 16/2002

Tainted landfills may leak 100 yearsAn update on the Rennie Street dump, the leaking landfill site at the centre of one of the Environmental Bureau of Investigation’s most recent cases. The Hamilton Spectator January 22/2001

Ministry has no staff to monitor tainted snow“MPP blasts downsizing in ecological enforcement.” Article quotes Lynda Lukasik — a partner of EBI and an informant in the case against the City of Hamilton — regarding contamination from an old landfill near Red Hill Creek. The Hamilton Spectator January 19/2001